Antibiotics Losing Battle Against Bugs: Report

More than two million people in the U.S. develop infections every year that are resistant to antibiotics, and at least 23,000 of them die as a result, according to a government report Monday that called for aggressive steps to counter a worsening public health problem.

Another 250,000 people annually develop a bacterial infection, clostridium difficile, and about 14,000 of those cases prove fatal, the Centers for Disease Control and...